Voice Interface
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14 statements about Voice Interface, every show
Weitzman predicts voice will overtake screens as primary interface within five years
“Human computer interface is going to become primarily voice, as opposed to a screen.”
Fox: In five years, kids will expect all devices to understand voice
“Across humanoid robots, consumer electronics, like, you're gonna see voice as this dimension that you just, like, expect And what, the example I think about is, you know, when you see pictures of, like, kids, like, trying to, like, swipe on TVs or something, b…”
Pincus: Voice interfaces will make typing and texting look obsolete
“But I do think that voice will be the biggest thing that'll feel obvious, that we wasted so much time typing and texting and reading, and I think we're going to turn on our ears and our voices a lot more.”
Sorkin: AI Will Consolidate Into A Single Voice-Driven Consumer Interface
“I think I'll go with, there's gonna be one interface. I don't know if it's one bot, but one interface that you will interact with. I imagine likely talking rather than even typing.”
Kuyda: AI builders wrongly view voice as the main interface
“There's a huge mind trap that exists among builders in the space where they somehow think that voice is the main interface.”
Cahn: Voice as an interface for AI is wildly underestimated
“I think that people are underestimating voice as an interface for AI.”
Staniszewski: Voice is becoming the primary interface for surrounding technology
“How now the interaction is shifting, where voice is this big interface for the technology around us.”
Green: Voice AI interfaces enable richer relational interactions and memory than typing
“As soon as you get to Have voice. I think people take a lot more liberty with how they talk, and you almost let ideas unfold, and you know, you peel back the onion in doing that. Now we've got voice that talks back to us digitally to prompt a conversation, and…”
Kirsten Green states people share tenfold more information speaking versus typing
“The amount people share If they have a voice, you know, a speaking opportunity versus a typing opportunity is tenfold.”
Hoffman: Voice will very soon become the main computing interface
“A hundred percent. One of the party tricks I do is I bring out my phone and put ChatGPT on audio mode to show people. Because part of when we learn to use phones or PCs, we've learned, you know, with GUIs and everything else, we've made it softer, but there's …”
Gurley: Pure voice interfaces are too tedious for comparative visual tasks
“If you want to, you know, see four different hotel choices in Taiwan, I don't think you want that read to you.
I think that will be tedious versus looking at it on the screen.”
Andreessen: Voice interfaces will not directly replace keyboards, mice, or touchscreens
“Yeah, so I think the thing that, if we're going to get something wrong about voice, I think it's going to be that it would be a one-to-one replacement for existing user interaction models, so that it would be like a replacement for keyboard or that it'd be a r…”
Markoff: Voice conversation will become the primary interface for everyday smart devices
“And I believe that we increasingly will talk to them because that's the most obvious interface.”
Kaden predicts Amazon Echo will become a mainstream physical controller
“I think a lot of the features on it right now are kind of delight, probably more than utility, but as they integrate more and more, I could definitely see it becoming a mainstream way of people to create interaction and kind of function in the physical world.”